Your First Week in a New Job
For the week you start somewhere new, when everybody else knows how things work and you do not. It helps you learn names, ask the questions that feel too basic to ask later, and judge yourself on the right things for a while.
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The checklist
- Write down names and roles the day you hear them — nobody minds the notebook in week one.
- Ask the basic questions now, not in a month — week one is the only free pass you get.
- Find out what your manager counts as a good first month — you cannot hit a target nobody named.
- Book a short chat with two people on your team — the work makes sense once the people do.
- Keep a list of what confused you today — it becomes the handover for the next new person.
- Leave on time at least three days this week — early overtime sets an expectation you keep.
- Judge yourself on learning, not output — contributing comes after understanding.
- Tell someone at home how it is going — a new job is tiring in a way that surprises people.
Use this checklist Free account: tick items off and keep each day's record.
How to use it
Run through it whenever you need it, honestly and without scoring yourself. A checklist is a way of noticing, not a test: an item you cannot tick is information about the day, not a verdict on you. Over a few weeks the pattern of what gets ticked and what does not says more than any single pass.
With a free Theraglee account the checklist remembers each pass, so you can look back. Without one, you can still read it here and keep your own copy.